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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 555,420, dated February 25, 1896.

Application led January 2 l, l 89 6 To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, BERNHARD BARON, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain Improved Cigarette, of Which the following is a specification.

For many years it has been recognized as desirable that cigarettes should be elliptical in shape in cross-section', as this form iits better between the lips and avoids the necessity of moistening and iiattening the ends of the ordinary cylindrical cigarettes. Heretofore suchcigarettes have been made by hand, as no means of effectively manufacturing them tical cigarettes as made by hand have, however, proved to be defective in certain particulars. In the first place they are exceedingly expensive, so that the use and sale thereof are comparatively limited. l Inasmuch as the tobacco filler in the process of hand-making is rst brought to a cylindrical shape and then Iiattened, the structure is by the flattening operation more or less broken, so that the cigarette will not retain its form if handled to any great extent, while as the filler is forced longitudinally into the tubular wrapper after the latter has been pasted the tobacco does not closely fill the tube, it can readily be displaced longitudinally by pushing it out of the tube, and its flattened form is apt to be injured by manipulation in forcing it lengthwise into the tube.

I have succeeded in producing a much improved elliptical cigarette, having none of the above-recited objections, by taking a mass of tobacco and molding it directly at a single operation into a continuous cigarette rod elliptical in cross-section and of the proper desired dimensions, and then also molding or shaping a continuous traveling wrappingstrip into a tube also elliptical in cross-section, and retaining the wrapper and its contained rod'under unyielding pressure during the operation of wrapping, pasting and sealing the wrapper, thereby forming a continuous cigarette rod elliptical in cross-section which is subsequently divided into proper lengths to constitute cigarettes.

An elliptical cigarette made as above described can at once be distinguished from the hand-made cigarettes not only by its more reg- Serial No. 576,326. (No model.)

ular and finished appearance, but by the firmness and regularity of the form of the iiller, which can be recognized at once by the touch, 5 5 the mass of tobacco forming the ller being primarily condensed and solidiied into the vdesired elliptical shape, thus inherent-ly embodying these qualities; further by the fact that the tobacco completely fills the wrapper- 6o tube so that it cannot be readily forced longitudinally therefrom, and also by its improved smoking qualities resulting from the even burning of the tobacco without any tendency of the iire to run up along one side of the cigarette.

An apparatus for manufacturing the improved cigarette rod and cigarette is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figures l and 1a constitute an elevation, partly in section, of sufficient of the cigarettemachine to illustrate the manufacture of the cigarette rod and cigarettes. Figs. 2 and 2a are vplan views of Figs. 1 and la. Fig. 3 is a 75 cross-section on the line 3 3, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a cross-section on the line 4 4, Fig. 1a. Fig. 5 is a cross-section on the line 5 5, Fig. la; and Fig. 6 is a perspective view illustrating my improved elliptical cigarette.

A table or platform X supports the horizontal portion of a carrier-belt 10, passing around rollers 12, and receiving a row of tobacco supplied in proper quantities from the feeder Y, of any suitable construction.

Above the belt 10 meet the edges of two horizontal molding-disks 13 upon driven shafts 14, and upon the upper faces of the said disks rests a plate 15, which, as shown, is connected to the end of a swinging frame B, pivoted to 9o a standard 40, and carries an endless belt 16 which passes around rollers 17 and 18 so arranged that the tobacco on the belt 10 is compressed below the lower edge of the plate 15 as it is brought into position between the mold- 95 ing-disks 13. Plates 31 32 have edges coinciding with the grooves in the peripheries of the molding-disks, which are of such shape as to impart an elliptical form in cross-section to the tobacco rod or filler-that is, the to- Ioo bacco upon the belt lO, properly proportioned, is brought between the disks and while in its moistened and moldable condition is directly reduced to the form in which it is desired to have it preserved and thence passes on to the wrapper-strip which is conducted to the wrappingtrough C by an endless traveling belt 24. The said wrapping-trough is so constructed that the tobacco and the wrapperstrip are retained unyieldingly under compression during the time that the tobacco rod is being inclosed and the wrapper-tube formed, and the said wrapping-trough has a channel elliptical in cross-section, whereby the tobacco is maintained slightly compressed as the wrapper-strip is folded and pasted around it and thereby a cigarette rod is formed which will retain its elliptical shape.

As shown, there is suspended within the wrapping-trough C a plate 30 narrower than the groove in the trough, and one edge of the wrapper-strip passes between the plate 30 and the side of the trough, while the other edge is folded over the plate 30 by an overhanging portion or flange 2G of the trough. rlhe plate 30 is set down so as to compress and condense the tobacco and prevent its swelling, and the tobacco and the inturned side of the wrapper are held down in a tightly-compressed condition beneath the flange 2G, while the inner face of the other side oi the wrapper is presented to a paster-whcel D, after which a folder-wheel E folds down and compresses the other side of the wrapper onto the parts beneath, and the tobacco rod or filler and pasted tube thence pass beneath an ovcrhan ging flange 27, during which time the paste dries, completing the sealing of the tube, while the tube and tobacco are both under pressure. As the continuous cigarette rod passes from the tube, it may be carried to any suitable cutter to be severed into short lengths to form cigarettes.

I have not described the details of any other parts than those which operate directly on the rod and wrapper, as these parts may be of any suitable construction.

Vithout limiting myself to the use of the special mechanism shown, I claim as my inventionl. As a new article of manufacture, a cigarette consisting of a mass of tobacco inherently densely compressed and solidified forming a filler substantially elliptical in crosssection, confined within and tightly fitting an elliptical paper tube, substantially as described.

2. As a new article of manufacture a continuous cigarette rod consisting of a solidified and condensed mass of tobacco forming a continuous molded filler substantially elliptical in cross-section confined within and tightly fitting a continuous elliptical paper tube, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my nalne to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BERNHARD BARON. Witnesses:

JOHN G. HINKEL, G. P. KRAMER. 

